And so to the question of Monday night’s Met Gala in New York City: Could anyone top Rihanna’s appearance last year as the Pope, complete with bejeweled robe and miter, when it comes to red carpet camp? It is dress gone so far into the realm of costume that it may never find its way home. The dress code may have been “studied triviality,” but its expression was most often “extravagant literalism.”Seriously: Katy Perry came as a Moschino crystal chandelier. Susan Sontag wrote in the essay that started it all that camp was a “woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers.” Great! In fact, feathered outerwear may have been the trend of the night.

Source: New York Times May 07, 2019 12:59 UTC